USPTO Patents Application 09838133

United States Patent and Trademark Office

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office

Address: COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS
P.O. Box 1450

Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450
www.uspto.gov

APPLICATION NO.

FILING DATE

FIRST NAMED INVENTOR

ATTORNEY DOCKET NO,

CONFIRMATION NO.

09/838,133

04/20/2001

David Verchere

164.0001

9529

35987 7590

JOSEPH P. CURTIN

1469 N.W. MORGAN LANE

PORTLAND, OR 97229

09/30/2010

EXAMINER

GARG, YOGESH C

ART UNIT

PAPER NUMBER

3625

MAIL DATE

DELIVERY MODE

09/30/2010 PAPER

Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding.

The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication.

PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07)

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Commissioner for Patents
United States Patent and Trademark Office
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
www.uspto.gov

Application No.
Applicant
Filing Date
Date Mailed

09838133
Verchere

04/20/2001
09/30/2010

NOTICE TO FILE CORRECTED APPLICATION PAPERS

Notice of Allowance Mailed

This application has been accorded an Allowance Date and is being prepared for issuance. The
application, however, is incomplete for the reasons below.

Applicant is given 2 month(s) from the mail date of this Notice within which to respond.

The informalities requiring correction are indicated in the attachment(s). If the informality
pertains to the abstract, specification (including claims) or drawings, the informality must be
corrected with an amendment in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121 (or, if the application is a reissue
application, 37 CFR 1.173). Such an amendment may be filed after payment of the issue fee if
limited to correction of informalities noted herein. See Waiver of 37 CFR 1.312 for Documents
Required by the Office of Patent Publication, 1280 Off. Gaz. Patent Office 918 (March 23, 2004).
In addition, if the informality is not corrected until after payment of the issue fee, for purposes of
35 U.S.C. 154(b)(l)(iv), "all outstanding requirements" will be considered to have been satisfied
when the informality has been corrected. A failure to respond within the above-identified time
period will result in the application being ABANDONED. This period for reply is NOT
extendable under 37 CFR 1.136(a).

See attachment(s).

A copy of this notice MUST be returned with the reply. Please address response to
"Mail Stop Issue Fee,Commissioner for Patents,
P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 22313-1450".

/Marty Willis/
Publishing Division
Office of Data Management
(571)272-4200

Application No. 09838133

IDENTIFICATION OF SPECIFICATION/DRAWING INCONSISTENCIES

X | On Page 5. 6 of the specification there is a brief description of FIG. 2. 10b , but the drawings
filed 12/30/2009 do not include a drawing with that designation. Applicant must respond either
by supplying the omitted drawing or by amending the specification to remove all references to
that drawing.

| | The drawings filed include FIG. , but the specification's brief description of the drawings does
not describe a drawing with that designation. Applicant must respond either by amending the
specification to add a brief description of that drawing or by correcting the drawings to remove
the drawing in question.

| | Drawings are present in the application and are referred to in the detailed description of the

invention, but the specification does not contain a brief description of the drawings as required
by 37 CFR 1.74 and 37 CFR 1.77(b)(8).

| | Page of the specification refers to FIG. , but no drawing with that designation is described in the
brief description of the drawings and no drawing with that designation is present in the
application. Applicant must respond either by amending the specification to remove all
references to that drawing, or by supplying that drawing and amending the specification to add a
brief description of it.

□ OTHER:

\x\ COMMENTS:

Drawing sheets 2 and 4 (of 15) show two different figures, both labeled as FIG. 4. Also, drawing sheets
1 1 and 12 show two different figures, both labeled as FIG. 10a.